THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

1845.

CHAPTER 164.

An act for the Incorporation of Friendship Lodge, Number
seven, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That David Martin, Elias R. Newman, David
Parr, W. Burgen, C. Gault, W. M. Starr, James E.

Crangle, Walter Dyer, William Hackney, A. Hamner,
W. T. Preston, William H. Jams, John H. Hulse,
Samuel Emory, Thomas G. Deford, A. W. Miles, G. J.
Wollet, M. Suter, James P. Harrison, T. Wemtz and
others, the officers and members of Friendship Lodge
Number Seven, of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, attached to the Grand Lodge of Maryland, and
their successor, be and they are hereby incorporated, and
made a body corporate and politic, by the name and
number of Friendship Lodge Number Seven, of the In-
dependent Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Mary-
land; and by that name, may sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded; have a common seal, and the same, at
their pleasure, alter; and be entitled to use the powers
and privileges incident to such corporation.

CHAP. 164.

Passed Feb.
14, 1846.

Incorporated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation
shall be capable of taking and holding real and personal
estate, not exceeding in value the sum of twenty thou-
sand dollars, which estate shall never be divided among
the members of the corporation, but shall descend to
their successors for the benevolent relief of the sick and
distressed, the education of the orphans of its members,
and for the promotion of these purposes generally.

Corporate
powers.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this corporation shall
not be permitted to issue any note, token, device or scrip,
or other evidence of debt to be used as a currency.

Issues forbid.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this corporation Shall
have power to alter and amend their bye-laws at
pleasure; provided, they do not conflict with the laws
of the State of Maryland, the laws of the United States,
or the laws of the Grand Lodge.

Right reserv-
ed.

SEC. 3 And be it enacted, That this act of incorpo-
ration shall enure for thirty years from its passage, and
that the legislature reserves to itself the right to alter and
annul this act of incorporation at pleasure.

Inure for 30

years.